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March 17, 2009 |
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Dear Carwash
FOUND by Jason
in Long Beach, CA
I was getting quarters at the "ghetto carwash" when I saw this note ripped in half and lying on top of the trash can. It's true, the one on Broadway is A LOT nicer.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
You might not ever get rich but let me tell ya it's better than digging a ditch
There ain't no telling who you might meet, a movie star or maybe even an Indian chief
Workin' at the car wash
Workin' at the car wash, yeah (Car wash girl)
Come on and sing it with me, car wash
Sing it with the feelin' ya'all, car wash, yeah (Car wash girl)
Yea that's pretty ghetto (circa 1974)
Wish there was a photo attached..how bad can it be?
I left a note a car wash once. I remember being violently angry with their pop machine for stealing many dollars from me over the summer. So why did I keep going back? It was across the street and I was thirsty. All summer.
I used some pretty colorful language, which, now that I think about it- it's probably not very healthy to be writing a note laced with obscenities to a pop machine.
Ah, well.
Dear Car owner,
Why don't you trim your moustache up, it is so ghetto looking. The moustache on your mother is what you should go look @ and take some notes.
Love,
the Carwash
EVERYTHING is better on Broadway!!! *jazz hands*
There's the unpublished note to Obama: "Why don't you clean America up, it is so ghetto looking. The wash on Broadway is what you should go look @ and take some notes."
Rock on Wash on Broadway!
Car washes are like laundromats...they are what they are, and the owners aren't concerned about "image." It's the maximum of return for the minimum of investment. And besides, writer--if they do up the place they will also raise their prices. If the one on Broadway is so much better, why don't you just go wash your buggy there? Ahhhh--because it's more expensive. See? Deal with it. Your car will get clean either place.
ut how you gonna make some time/ when all you got is one thin dime/ and one thin dime won't even shine your sh
I went to Broadway but they was all like, why you taking notes and stuff, you trying to rip me off, gettin' in my face, they ran me through the hot wax.
Ghetto Car Wash
Yeah, go clean up your act.
One man's ghetto is another man's Shangra-la.
@baby basil, what you say is very practical and level-headed.. i like that. It's so true.
@Grab Bag, I'm havin' hilarious mental images of car washes walking down the street, meeting up and slugging it out on Broadway!
And it's my birthday too! And my car is very dirty. I'm not planning to go to the carwash either.
What's that Sheryl Crowe song about all the good people across the street washing their cars and she's sitting in the bar with some guy with thick fingers lighting matches and all she wants to do is have some fun and she's got the feeling she's not the only one. That's the image that first came to mind when i read this note.
The Ghetto Car Wash knew all about Broadway. Broadway had been the star Quarterback where GCW had been a pineshinter. He got the lead in all the High School plays, while GCW was on the lighting crew. It was bad enough that he got all the cute girls, but it broke him when Broadway took GCW's sweetheart Patchouli Bikini Carwash to the Prom. The final straw was when Broadway opened up his Carwash just down the street from GCW - taking all his business. He just gave up. ....and then there were the endless notes from people telling him he should be just like Broadway...
@Hiplainsdrifter.. now i'm getting images of carwashes in bikinis and smelling like patchouli. It just defies all logic!
@Clover - GCW always went for the cute artsy chicks...
Ya knom...
They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway.
Maybe the ghetto wash just needs some neon lights.
Know - not knom
Geez
Happy Birthday Clover!! xoxoxo
I try to avoid the carwash -ghetto or broadway- at all cost... that whole water and electricity thing.
We have a lot of ghetto carwashes in our town. Once, someone came up to me and tried to sell me some jewelry. Gosh, I sure hope it wasn't stolen, or anything..... ;)
This note seems to presuppose that ghetto residents don't want to wash their cars, too. Or that they would rather travel to Broadway (like they'll be welcome there, for sure) to get the car washed.
Maybe the homies LIKE feeling at home washing their cars. Ever think of that?
Dear Carwash,
I love how you get me all wet and lathered up.. and then..
oh. Wait....
Never mind.
@ CLOVER,
how wierd is it that as soon as i read your comment about the sheryl crowe song...it's playing on the radio! WIERD!
Am I the only person who was terrified to go through the car wash as a kid? The darkness, the noise, those big floppy things going over your car, the giant brushes....horrifying. I think I usually cried.
I still get kind of scared, some kind of child...I can hold back the tears, though.
"....we are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
The good people of the world are washing their cars
On their lunch break, hosing and scrubbing
As best they can in skirts in suits..."
probably not a ghetto car wash.
@ some kind of child and mlm ... I take it your dads always forgot to put the convertible top up before going throught the car wash??
@ Clover: Seriously? Today's my birthday too.
The Ghetto Car Wash was well-known for being, well, ghetto. That's because it was. They couldn't afford any neon lights or anything, but they washed the cars all right, if you didn't count the giant stains that were left from the electricity...
The carwash on Broadway is not kosher.
@MYRNA.. do you notice that kind of stuff always happens around Found? Magic!
@MUSE!! Happy birthday to you too! Don't you think that this is the best day ever to have a birthday? Except for getting pinched to grow an inch even if you wear green.
If this is Ghetto Booty's carwash, you know it's the cleanest place in town. "Simon says just take a shower, it ain't that hard."
http://www.foundmagazine.com/comments/1314
If "ghetto looking" means I can score a dub-sack and haggle with a pimp while my whip gets razzle-dazzled, I'm down. Who cares if the lights shine bright on Broadway? Magic in the air, my ass.
@Sammy Davis Junior Jr
I did a "drive-by" today and shot a photo of the two car washes. Here is a link to them...
http://weareloremandipsum.com/blog/2009/03/dea
Nice Blog, Lorem and Ipsum! Thanks for providing the rest of the world with a glimpse.
(And thanks for submitting the Find. It's a gem!)
Hey, Lorem and Ipsum, thanks for sending us a link to the photos! It's a rare thing to get more insight on a find like that. Cool! and fun to see what the two car washes look like in real life! Now if you could just catch them walking down the street..
right on. i used to live in belmont shore... this note is excellent!!
Living around the corner from the car wash on Broadway, I must say I feel rather lucky. I can't think of any other car washes in the LBC that are not ghetto.
This is great!